1. PHILIPP JOSEPH2 WEBER (JOHANN GEORG1) was born Abt. 1687 in Germany, and died Bef. 1726 in Virginia. He married SUSANNA CLORE 26 Jan 1705/06 in Gemmingen, Baden, Germany, daughter of HANS KLAAR and ANNA ???. She was born Bet. 1691 - 1692 in Gemmingen, Wuerttemberg,.

Philipp Joseph Weber (Reference # 1544 & 1592) was born c1687 in Germany although he was not christened until 8 November 1710 at Gemmingen, Baden, Germany and he died before 1726 in Virginia. He married Susanna Klaar (Reference # 1545 & 1593) 26 January 1705/6 at Gemmingen, Baden, Germany. Susanna was born c1691 at Gemmingen, Baden, Germany and died in Virginia. She married second Jacob Crigler (-1734) and third Nicholas Yager (1678-before 3 April 1764 when Susanna gave bond as admx of his estate). Susanna Klaar and all three of her husbands were members of the 1717 Colony of Germanna. For futher information on Susanna Klaar's ancestry see the Clore Family.
Children of Philip Joseph Weber and Susanna Klaar:

In the Vol. 3, No. 3 issue of Beyond Germanna (May 1991), Margaret Brown Altendahl wrote about Susanna Clore Weaver Crigler Yager (using the English version of these names). As implied by the four surnames, Susanna Klaar (her maiden name in Germany) was married three times. She, with her first husband and their family, were members of the Colony of 1717.

Some of this information has become known only since 1989. Furthermore, two daughters have been confirmed in recent years and marriage partners for four daughters have been identified, some for the first time. Her story is a testimony to research.

On 26 January 1706, Susanna Klaar married Phillip Joseph Weber in Gemmingen, Baden. She was born before the church records for Gemmingen began but another record allows us to put her birth year at about 1692. Thus, she was not very old when she married Joseph Weber. The Gemmingen birth records show that six children were born to the couple in 1707, 1708, 1709, 1710, 1713, and 1715. The first three died at a very young age and the sixth died not far past his first birthday. The two surviving children were Hans Dieterich (Peter) and Maria Sophia born in 1710 and 1713, respectively. At least one more daughter in this family was born after the departure from Gemmingen.

When the families from Gemmingen left in 1717, the sexton at the church made an entry in the church book noting their departure. For the Webers, it was (translated):

“Joseph Weber and wife Susanna. He is 30 and she is 25 years old.
Hannss Dieterich, seven years old (he was studying for his confirmation).
Sophia, not yet four years old, an infant [i.e., too young for confirmation].”

[The ages for Joseph and Susanna may have been estimates.] One other family who left at the same time was Susanna’s brother Michael Klaar, his wife Maria Barbara, and their family. The sexton gave the reason that the families were leaving which reads in translation:

“On July 12th of this year the below listed parents including their children moved away from here at night with the intention to sail over to Pennsylvania in order to earn their piece of bread better than here through the hard work of cultivating the wilderness. Yet quite many people went away not only from here but also from other places, and all went with the same intention.”

The group that left was unfortunate in their choice of a ship and captain who took them not to Pennsylvania but to Virginia. The Weavers, as they became known in Virginia, were indentured to Alexander Spotswood who placed them along the north side of the Rapidan River just above Germanna. Later they moved to the Robinson River Valley “at the Great Mountains.” Spotswood later used their headrights in payment for a tract of land. There the Weaver family appears as:

This is the only record in Virginia where the name of Joseph Weber appears. The last name in this list of five does not appear in the Gemmingen church records so the best assumption is she was born en route to America. The name Wabburie is most likely a nickname for Walburga. Later in life, she became known as Burga and appears as such in the “Hebron” church records. There is no evidence that any children were born to Joseph and Susanna after arrival in America.

With the death of Joseph Weaver, Susanna Clore Weaver married Jacob Crigler. (The German spelling of Crigler is unknown.) To this union, four surviving children were born:
Christopher,
Nicholas,
Susanna,
Elizabeth.

There had been speculation that Jacob and Susanna had at least one daughter Margaret but the evidence for this was erroneous. By an intensive analysis of the German Lutheran Church records (“Hebron”), it is possible to say with a high probability, better than most cases, that there were the two daughters.

Jacob Crigler died about 1734 when Susanna was appointed administratrix in April. She later married Nicholas Yeager. They had no children but the church records show that the earlier children of Susanna were very much at home in the Yeager home.

At least eleven children born to Susanna have been identified. Seven of these lived to become active and reproductive members of the Germanna community.

The oldest child was Peter Weaver who converted his calling name of Dieterich to Dieter and then to Peter as a close English sound. Peter married Elizabeth. Some people believe that they have identified Elizabeth’s family but I’ll refrain from repeating it, not because I think it is wrong but because I have never made a study of the case. The Germanna Records have identified Peter Weaver as a “later comer” but this is clearly an error as he did arrive in 1717.

Maria Sophia Weaver, the second child, married Peter Fleshman. The analysis, quite involved but very conclusive, shows this to be the case (see Beyond Germanna, Vol. 13, No. 5, p. 767). Very extensive use of the church records (Baptisms and Communicants) was made and shows the power of association among people as indicators of relationships.

Burga or Wabburie were probably nicknames for Walburga (Weaver). She married John Willheit, son of Michael Willheit the early immigrant. Germanna Record 13 says John’s wife was Margaret (Peggy) Weaver, the daughter of Peter and Mary (Huffman) Weaver, Jr. The problem with this assignment is that John’s wife would have been younger than some of her children. By using the headright record above and the church records, it is possible to say John Willheit’s wife was Walburga Weaver. An extensive analysis of this situation was made in Beyond Germanna, Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 321.

Christopher Crigler, born prior to 1723 by the analysis of B. C. Holtzclaw, married Catherine Finks. He has eleven children given in the German Lutheran Church records.

Nicholas Crigler married Margaret Kaefer. The names of nine children, two of whom are dead, are given in the church records.

Susanna Crigler married Michael Utz. Susanna was probably older than her sister Elizabeth and both were probably younger than their two brothers. There is an outside chance that Susanna and Elizabeth were daughters of Joseph Weaver but when the ages of their spouses are considered, it is likely that they were daughters of Jacob Crigler (Beyond Germanna, Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 872).

Elizabeth Crigler married Michael Yager. Many records say that Michael Yager married Elizabeth Manspiel but there is no support for this idea. A detailed analysis of the church records shows that Elizabeth Crigler was the very probable wife of Michael Yager (Beyond Germanna, Vol. 15, No. 4, p. 869).

Germanna Record 6 suggests that Jacob and Susanna Crigler had a daughter Margaret who married Henry Aylor. This is a mistake as Henry Aylor married Margaret Thomas.

At different times, many people have contributed to this research. The first published information on the Gemmingen church records was by Gary Zimmerman and Johni Cerny. Suggestions and analysis of the Virginia information were made by Craig Kilby, Nancy Dodge, and John Blankenbaker who wrote up the conclusions.

In the last fifteen years many errors connected with Susanna Clore have been corrected and omissions filled. The church records in Germany and in Virginia were extremely important in accomplishing this. Some of the information is given explicitly and much of it is given implicitly. The implicit information requires hours to draw out the conclusions but the value of the information is not weakened in any way. As to circumstantial evidence, “when the milk contains fish, you may assume that it has been watered.”

It is a help to study the community, not an individual family.

Account of Susanna Clore's three marriages, although the order appears to be in error. Nicholas Yager appears to be Susanna's THIRD marriage, not her FIRST, as indicated in this account Susanna's first marriage was to Phillip Joseph Weber on 26 Jan 1706, her second marriage was to Jacob Crigler, between 1718-1721, and her third marriage was to Nicholas Yager, after the death of Jacob Crigler in 1734.

On April 3 1734, Susanna Crigler gave bond in Spotsylvania County as administrator of Jacob Crigler's estate. She later became the second wife of Nicholas Yager of the 1717 Germanna Colony. She last appears in the records on April 6, 1764, when she deeds slaves to her two sons by Jacob Crigler.

Susanna married (1) Nicholaus "Old Nicks" Yager son of Paul Yager. Nicholaus was born on 28 May 1676 in Oberzell, Weichersbach, Hesse, Germany. He died on 6 Apr 1764 in Hebron Community, Madison Co, Va.

Original spelling Jager. English variations: Yager, Jeager, and Yeager. Nicholas and wife, Mary, emigrated to Virginia in 1717 with their two children, Adam and Mary. Nicholas intended to join brothers, Adam & Henry, in PA (1717), but the ship was blown off course, landing in Norfolk, VA. Capt. Scott indentured the family to Gov. Spotswood who worked them in his mines for 8 years. He proved his importation papers on July 13, 1722 and again on May. Additional data from material prepared by Vaughan & Jean PARRISH and supplied by Richard A. YEAGER, Bothell, WA.

The birth record of Nicholas Yeager is in the church in
Oberzell, a tiny community near Weichersbach, Germany.
This record indicates that Nicholas was born in
Oberzell, christened in Oberzell and that his father,
Hans Jager, lived in Oberzell. The German spelling of
his name as written on his birth record, is Nicholas
Jager, and the date of his birth 28 May 1676. The
complete social upheavel occasioned by the Thirty Years
War (1618-1648) may have had its effects upon record
keeping. Nicholas was naturalized 13 July 1722 during
the governorship of Alexander Spottswood. The Orange
County, Virginia records show that he had to take out
naturalization papers the second time 2 May 1727.
Nicholas, like others in the 1717 group, was sued by the
Governor for his transportation money in 1724. He
endured the hardships of Germanna until the small colony
left this first home and settled on the Robinson River,
in what is now Madison County, Va. Nicholas Yeager made
his first patent of land in the new place of settlement
on 24 June 1726 (Patent Book 12 page 483 Land Office
Richmond, Virginia). This patent reads as follows: "Unto
Nicholas Yager of Saint George Parish, in Spotsylvania
County, one certain tract or parcell of land containing
four hundred acres, lying and being in the Parish and
county aforesaid and in the first forks of the Rapidan
River". Although he had other land exchanges and
acquired others he lived on this original tract of land
until his death. (Verne RESER)

GEDCOM provided by Doug Mumma !Original spelling Jager. English variations: Yager, Jeager, and Yeager. Nicholas and wife, Mary, emigrated to Virginia in 1717 with their two children, Adam and Mary. Nicholas intended to join brothers, Adam & Henry, in PA (1717), but the ship was blown off course, landing in Norfolk, VA. Capt. Scott indentured the family to Gov. Spotswood who worked them in his mines for 8 years. He proved his importation papers on July 13, 1722 and again on May. Additional data from material prepared by Vaughan & Jean PARRISH and supplied by Richard A. YEAGER, Bothell, WA.

The birth record of Nicholas Yeager is in the church in
Oberzell, a tiny community near Weichersbach, Germany.
This record indicates that Nicholas was born in
Oberzell, christened in Oberzell and that his father,
Hans Jager, lived in Oberzell. The German spelling of
his name as written on his birth record, is Nicholas
Jager, and the date of his birth 28 May 1676. The
complete social upheavel occasioned by the Thirty Years
War (1618-1648) may have had its effects upon record
keeping. Nicholas was naturalized 13 July 1722 during
the governorship of Alexander Spottswood. The Orange
County, Virginia records show that he had to take out
naturalization papers the second time 2 May 1727.
Nicholas, like others in the 1717 group, was sued by the
Governor for his transportation money in 1724. He
endured the hardships of Germanna until the small colony
left this first home and settled on the Robinson River,
in what is now Madison County, Va. Nicholas Yeager made
his first patent of land in the new place of settlement
on 24 June 1726 (Patent Book 12 page 483 Land Office
Richmond, Virginia). This patent reads as follows: "Unto
Nicholas Yager of Saint George Parish, in Spotsylvania
County, one certain tract or parcell of land containing
four hundred acres, lying and being in the Parish and
county aforesaid and in the first forks of the Rapidan
River". Although he had other land exchanges and
acquired others he lived on this original tract of land
until his death. (Verne RESER)

Info received from John Wayland: longjohn@abt.net 28 Apr 1998
Had two sons by Susanna Clore Weaver.

Was one of the original 1717 colonists to Germanna in Virginia, and the first of these to be sued by Col. Spotswood in 1723. His widow was appointed administratrix of his estate 3 Apr 1734. He had at least two sons, Christopher and Nicholas, and probably a daughter Margaret who m. Henry Aylor, grandson of Henry Snyder the 1717 immigrants. See Germanna Record No. 6. Name also spelled Creagler, Criegler, Krugler, etc.

Notes for HANS DIETERICH "PETER" WEBER:
Peter Weaver was one of the original 1717 immigrants to the Germanna Colony, Culpeper County, Virginiahttp://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/4803/Weaver.htm

Hans Dieterich Weber (aka Peter Weaver) (Reference # 772 & 796) was christened 8 November 1710 at Gemmingen, Baden, Germany and died c18 August 1763 in Virginia when his will was probated. He married Elizabeth, surname unknown (Reference # 773 & 797), in Virginia. Further information about Elizabeth is unknown. They had the following children:

Some accounts claim that John Wilhoit's wife was Margaret "Peggy" Weaver, not Walburga. The following e-mail, written by John Blankenbaker, author of "Beyond Germanna" refutes this claim and proves that John Wilhoit's wife was Walburga Weaver:

The three hundred and nineteenth note is a series on the Germanna Colonies
>
> A recent note spoke of John Wilhoit and his wife Margaret "Peggy" Weaver.
> John Wilhoit was the son of Johann Michael Willheit and his wife Anna Maria
> Hengsteler. Margaret "Peggy" Weaver was said to be the daughter of Peter
> Weaver and Mary B. Huffman. (The source for this may have been Germanna
> Record 13, page 50.)
>
> Just the simplest of time lines shows that the above statement concerning
> Margaret Weaver could not be true. She would be younger than some of her
> children.
>
> The true facts were worked out in an article in Beyond Germanna, v. 6, n.3
> (May 1994). A summary is provided here.
>
> John Willheit and wife Burga attended the Hebron Lutheran Church in Culpeper
> Co., VA on Easter Sunday in 1776. They appear in the list of communicants.
> The names adjacent to John and Burga were George Utz, Sr.(son of the 1717
> immigrant), wife Mary (Kaifer) and Henry Aylor, wife Anna Margaret. Henry
> Aylor was born in 1718 and the other three were thought to have been born in
> the 1720's. Thus John Willheit was probably the son, born 1713, of the
> immigrant Michael Willheit. Usually people sat with others of the same age.
> Also, the grandsons of Michael Willheit who were named John had wives whose
> names do not suggest the name Burga.
>
> On the first Sunday after Easter in 1778, the name Burga Wilheit was
> recorded again in the church Register confirming that the name really did
> exist. The name Burga is unusual at the Hebron Lutheran Church. Burga is, of
> course, a nickname for Walburga or Waldburga. In the Virginia records there
> is one other record of a similar name. The list of fifty imported Germans
> which Spotswood used to partial payment for a patent of land includes the
> family, Joseph Wever, Susannna Wever, Hans Frederick Wever, Maria Sophia
> Wever, and Wabburie Wever. Except for the name Wabburie, the family is known
> in Germany. This suggests that Wabburie was born in 1717, at sea or, at
> least, in transit from Germany. Wabburie is another nickname for Walburga.
>
> So we have these facts: John Willheit married Burga (i.e., Walburga). The
> only Walburga in the Second Colony is Walburga Wever (Weaver). He was born
> in 1713 and she was born in 1717.
>
> The Hans Frederick Wever, above, was actually Hans Dietrich Wever (from the
> German records). The Dietrich became Dieter, Teter, Peter. Thus Walburga
> Weaver was a sister of Peter Weaver, the 1717 immigrant, and not the
> granddaughter of Peter.
>
> Mrs. Wever was Susanna Klaar, the sister of Michael Klaar (Clore). Joseph
> Wever died early on in Virginia though his arrival in Virginia is recorded.
> Susanna married Jacob Crigler and, after he died, she married Nicholas Yager.
>
> The name Wever is often rendered as Weber or in America as Weaver.
> John Blankenbaker
> Beyond Germanna
> PO Box 120
> Chadds Ford, PA 19317
> http://www.wp.com/germanna/
> http://www.concentric.net/~sgtgeorg/germhist.shtml

Johann Christian WILHOIT was born on 1 Jul 1713 in Schwaigern, , , Germany and was christened on 13 Dec 1715. He died on 4 Oct 1776 in Madison, Madison Co., Virginia. Johann married Walburga WEAVER in , , Virginia.

I have the 10 children of John listed, courtesy of Harriet Crisler,
2843 So. Daniels, Heber City, UT 84032. John's wife was given as Margaret Weaver, but John Blankenbaker pointed out that this is not true:

"Just the simplest of time lines shows that
Margaret Weaver could not be true. She would be younger than some of her children.

The true facts were worked out in an article in Beyond Germanna, v. 6, n.3
(May 1994). A summary is provided here.

John Willheit and wife Burga attended the Hebron Lutheran Church in Culpeper Co., VA on Easter Sunday in 1776. They appear in the list of communicants.
The names adjacent to John and Burga were George Utz, Sr.(son of the 1717 immigrant), wife Mary (Kaifer) and Henry Aylor, wife Anna Margaret. Henry
Aylor was born in 1718 and the other three were thought to have been born in the 1720's. Thus John Willheit was probably the son, born 1713, of the immigrant Michael Willheit. Usually people sat with others of the same age. Also, the grandsons of Michael Willheit who were named John had wives whose names do not suggest the name Burga.

On the first Sunday after Easter in 1778, the name Burga Wilheit was
recorded again in the church Register confirming that the name really did exist. The name Burga is unusual at the Hebron Lutheran Church. Burga is, of course, a nickname for Walburga or Waldburga. In the Virginia records there
is one other record of a similar name. The list of fifty imported Germans
which Spotswood used to partial payment for a patent of land includes the family, Joseph Wever, Susannna Wever, Hans Frederick Wever, Maria Sophia
Wever, and Wabburie Wever. Except for the name Wabburie, the family is known
in Germany. This suggests that Wabburie was born in 1717, at sea or, at
least, in transit from Germany. Wabburie is another nickname for Walburga.

So we have these facts: John Willheit married Burga (i.e., Walburga). The
only Walburga in the Second Colony is Walburga Wever (Weaver). He was born
in 1713 and she was born in 1717.

The Hans Frederick Wever, above, was actually Hans Dietrich Wever (from the German records). The Dietrich became Dieter, Teter, Peter. Thus Walburga
Weaver was a sister of Peter Weaver, the 1717 immigrant, and not the granddaughter of Peter.

Mrs. Wever was Susanna Klaar, the sister of Michael Klaar (Clore). Joseph
Wever died early on in Virginia though his arrival in Virginia is recorded. Susanna married Jacob Crigler and, after he died, she married Nicholas Yager.

Walburga WEAVER [Parents] "Burga" was born in 1717. She died after 1776. Burga married Johann Christian WILHOIT in , , Virginia.

John Willheit and wife Burga attended the Hebron Lutheran Church in Culpeper Co., VA on Easter Sunday in 1776. They appear in the list of communicants. Therefore, she died after this date. John died soon after in 1776. "Burga" is the sister of the immigrant Peter Weaver # 6787. Last name may be "Weber" but may have become "Weaver" after arrival in Virginia.

The five hundred and eighty-fifth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

Recent notes on the list have given some names and relationships which I do not believe are true. One note said that the wife of Johann Michael Willheit, early Germanna immigrant, was Mary Blankenbaker which is
definitely false. His wife was Anna Maria Hengsteller and she was the mother of all of Michael's children.

The senior Willheits had a son John who married Walburga Weaver. Often her name is given as Margaret or Peggy which is not correct. At the Hebron church she was known as Burga. This, and her nickname as a headright, suggest strongly that her formal name was Walburga which is also sometimes spelled as Waldburga. Her birth is not recorded in the German records yet she was living at the time of importation. Very probably she was born at sea; the age of her parents and siblings suggests that it would be natural.
She had a brother, slightly older, who became known as Peter Weaver. Her father was Joseph Weaver and her mother was Susanna Clore who later married Jacob Crigler and Nicholas Yager.

Nicholas Wilhoit, the son of John and Walburga in the preceding paragraph, married Mary Margaret Fisher, not Elizabeth Fisher or Mary Elizabeth Fisher. Nicholas and his wife have mentions in the Hebron church records in the Robinson River Valley where her name appears as Mary and as Margaret. This was not unusual as several cases similar to this are known in the church records. The odds are in favor of the name sequence being Mary Margaret (as opposed to Margaret Mary) since Mary is more popular as a first name than Margaret.

It has been said here recently that Michael Souther married a Mary Fisher. I would not argue against this but I would claim that she is not a daughter of Lewis Fisher and Anna Barbara Blankenbaker. An analysis that I have done of the children of Lewis and Anna Barbara clearly suggests there was no daughter Mary except for the Mary Margaret who married Nicholas Wilhoit, see the paragraph above.

Here is an idea to think about. In the Orange County tithe list in 1739, there were two Lewis Fishers, one of whom lived north of the Robinson River and one of whom lived south of the river. In the baptism of Zimmermann children in Sulzfeld, one set of sponsors is Ludwig and Anna Barbara Fischer (as found and reported by Margaret James Squires). While this couple would be too old to be the Lewis and Anna Barbara that we commonly know in Virginia, the Sulzfeld couple might be the parents of the Lewis Fisher. The
senior Lewis may have had more children than Lewis, Jr. and the nephews and nieces of Lewis, Jr. may be confused with his own children. Nothing is proven here yet but I pass along these ideas and facts for someone who wishes to search in more detail.

Finally, a few correct spellings are Baden, Württemberg or Wuerttemberg, and Schwaigern.